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• Export-Import Bank, vital to Boeing, likely to be revived

  01-12-2015 23:59
  
  A years-delayed, long-term federal highways bill is likely to revive the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which will allow Boeing to sell a lot more jet planes. Negotiators in Congress have reached tentative agreement on a five-year $281 billion transportation infrastructure bill, a task which has eluded Capitol Hill since 2008. Boeing’s ninth 787 Dreamliner, the third for launch customer All Nippon Airways, in production in Boeing’s wide-body plant in Everett.  The U.S. Export-Import B
  
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• Need a Reason to Keep Hating Ronald Reagan on World AIDS Day? This Audio Doc Is for You

  01-12-2015 23:45 via thestranger.com
  
  "Why yes, on reflection, I guess I was the fucking worst." Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock
  I happen to think every day is a good day to despise, revile, and scorn the name of Ronald Reagan but ESPECIALLY World AIDS Day. Smarter people than I have and will continue to elucidate the poisonous legacy of the man whose presidency hastened the irrevocable beginning of unquestionable end, but When AIDS Was Funny, an audio-and-still-photos documentary, published today by Vanity Fair (sorry, no embed), is an ex
  
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• Key moments in case of teen fatally shot by Chicago cop

  01-12-2015 23:11
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Chicago’s police superintendent Tuesday and named a task force to study police accountability in the aftermath of the release of a 2014 video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times. Emanuel defended the city’s handling of the matter, saying the timing of the video’s […]
  
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• Planned Parenthood shooting renews focus on domestic terror

  01-12-2015 23:09
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic brought several guns, ammunition and propane tanks officials say he assembled around a car. For hours, he holed up inside the clinic, unleashing a fusillade that wounded nine others, scattering post-Thanksgiving shoppers who had to hide inside surrounding buildings […]
  
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• Planned Parenthood shooting: Domestic terrorism? It’s knotty

  01-12-2015 23:09
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic brought several guns, ammunition and propane tanks that officials say he assembled around a car. For hours, he holed up inside the clinic, unleashing a fusillade that wounded nine others and sent shoppers scattering inside surrounding buildings during a […]
  
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• In slap at Obama, GOP-led House moves to block climate rule

  01-12-2015 23:08
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Barack Obama worked to hammer out a global climate agreement in Paris, Republicans in Congress moved to block his plan to force steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants. The House passed two resolutions Tuesday disapproving Obama’s power-plant rules and rendering them inoperative. A measure blocking an […]
  
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• In massive stranding, 337 whales beached on Chilean coast

  01-12-2015 23:07
  
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The coast of southern Chile has become a grave for 337 sei whales that were found beached in what scientists say is one of the biggest whale strandings ever recorded. Biologist Vreni Haussermann told The Associated Press Tuesday that she made the discovery along with other scientists in June during an […]
  
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• #GivingTuesday and a Look Inside the New Nickelsville in Ballard

  01-12-2015 23:01 via thestranger.com
  
  I went to the new Nickelsville in Ballard last Wednesday, November, 25th.Kelly O
  From the sidewalk outside, it's a pretty quiet unassuming place. You really only see the Tiny House Constructions and the fence. Kelly O
  Inside, I met resident and Nickelsville Head of Security, Steve Friberg. A Ballard neighbor gave him this hat. He said it fits perfectly. Kelly OSteve showed me the plans they had drawn up for movable foundations they're building. These will keep tents up off the ground and will al
  
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• What the Empty Storefronts in Vancouver, BC Tell Us About the Dangers of Global Capital

  01-12-2015 22:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Global cash is transforming Vancouver, BC into a ghost city. JPL Designs/shutterstock.com
  While visiting Vancouver, BC recently, I noticed that many of the rental spaces for small businesses on the drabbish Denman Street, the glamorous Robson Street, and the worldly Granville Street were empty. This wasn't the case two years ago when I visited the city on New Year's Day. Then, everything appeared to be business as usual. What had happened during my time away? Was Vancouver going through a recess
  
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• Seattle woman accused of altering cellphone records after fatal crash

  01-12-2015 22:39
  
  A South Seattle woman was charged with vehicular homicide last week, accused of talking on her cellphone when she fatally struck an elderly pedestrian in February 2014. Police say she altered phone records in an attempt to cover up her distracted-driving behavior.
  
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• Stranger (Than Usual) Things To Do This Week: 18 Excellent, Off-Center Happenings This Week

  01-12-2015 22:20 via thestranger.com
  
  Sergei Bachlakov / Shutterstock
  This week brings us a holiday-themed smattering of oddity, from John Waters' Christmas show to the "ugly sweater" edition of Inferno at Neighbours, plus LED animals, a Frank Sinatra birthday bash, and some sort of dragon/magician/comedian.
  TUESDAY
  1. Wildlights
  After you spend the day visiting real animals at the Woodland Park Zoo, enjoy this display of creature shapes, brightly lit by thousands of LED lights.
  2. Zappa Plays Zappa
  Zappa heir apparent (well, reall
  
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• Bloomberg Businessweek Just Published an Exposé on the Seattle CEO Paying Employees a $70,000 Minimum Wage

  01-12-2015 21:52 via thestranger.com
  
  According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, may have only decided to raise his employees' salaries after being served a lawsuit claiming his own salary was excessive. P. Chinnapong/Shutterstock
  Dan Price, the 31-year-old CEO of Seattle-based credit card processing company Gravity Payments, has been in the news a lot lately. His decision to pay his employees a $70,000 minimum wage has won coverage everywhere from Esquire to the Daily Show. Price was also recently sued
  
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• PHOTOS: Most wanted sex offenders in Washington (updated Nov. 30)

  01-12-2015 21:41
  
  PHOTOS: Most wanted sex offenders in Washington (updated Oct. 5)
  
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• Why Were Low-Income SLU Residents Denied Free Meat & Bread Sandwiches?

  01-12-2015 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  After low-income seniors were turned away from a free event at the 400 Fairview building, the Low Income Housing Institute’s Sharon Lee is asking, “Why is a security guard hired by the building owner discriminating against neighborhood residents?" 400 Fairview
  Last week, the Seattle Weekly reported that two senior citizens, residents of the Lower Income Housing Institute's (LIHI) Bart Harvey apartment building in South Lake Union, were singled out and asked to leave a line of more th
  
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• Murray, Cantwell boost Clinton’s presidential campaign; where was Elizabeth Warren?

  01-12-2015 21:23
  
  Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., as they did in 2008, turned out to boost the presidential campaign of former U.S. Senate colleague Hillary Clinton at a Monday night Washington, D.C., dinner attended by 13 of the Senate’s 14 Democratic “Gentle ladies.” The notably missing Democratic figure was Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the most popular liberal voice in the Democratic Party and architect of Wall Street reform. Sen. Elizabeth Warren:  “Maybe she ha
  
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• When girl’s pain became too much, YES was there to help

  01-12-2015 21:13
  
  Counseling to work through a childhood trauma was the key to moving forward for a student now on a full scholarship in college.
  
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• If You Haven't Been Paying Attention, Our City Is in the Middle of a Cat Battle with Portland

  01-12-2015 21:11 via thestranger.com
  
  This is Sayonara vocalist and tattoo artist David Choe. He's also the proud owner of Ohyan Fei Fei, the cat.Invisible Hour
  Raise your hand if you're a single man who owns a cat.
  In response to a Seattle Times article about the preponderance of feline ownership among the women of Portland, my distinguished colleague Megan Burbank, arts editor of our sister paper The Purrtland Mercury, called on the single ladies of our southern neighbor to adopt more cats in order to increase their lead in this r
  
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• SL Letter of the Day: Routine Maintenance

  01-12-2015 20:59 via thestranger.com
  
  Originally posted on December 31, 2014.
  What is your stance on maintenance sex? I'd never thought about the issue until reading Amy Poehler's new memoir. I didn't find anything she said controversial, and was surprised when this quote blew up in the feminist blogosphere: "You have to have sex with your husband occasionally, even though you're exhausted. Sorry." I'd never realized many people firmly believe one should have sex with their partner only when they are in the mood! Some articles even
  
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• Republican Candidates, Emboldened by Trump, Are Telling Bigger Fibs than Ever

  01-12-2015 20:58 via thestranger.com
  
  Donald Trump: An inspiration to us all. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  Look, we all know that the only skill politicians have is lying, but things are starting to get out of hand with the GOP candidates for president. Over the past few months, we've watched Donald Trump creep further and further and further over the line from "oddly misleading" to "often deceitful" to "gleeful con artist" with no consequences. And now it seems like his GOP rivals have been emboldened to do the same.
  Lies from the Rep
  
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• Suit tests case for seizing $908,000 from indicted state Auditor Troy Kelley

  01-12-2015 20:38
  
  Indicted State Auditor Troy Kelley is challenging the government’s seizure of $908,000 in allegedly “tainted” funds. A two-day hearing under way in U.S. District Court in Tacoma will be the first test of the government’s case against him.
  
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• Indicted State Auditor Kelley seeks return of seized $908,000

  01-12-2015 20:38
  
  Indicted State Auditor Troy Kelley is challenging the government’s seizure of $908,000 in allegedly “tainted” funds. A two-day hearing under way in U.S. District Court in Tacoma will be the first test of the government’s case against him.
  
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• Snow is coming to the Cascades, weather service says

  01-12-2015 20:27
  
  The National Weather Service has issued a snow advisory for the Cascade Mountains in King, Snohomish, Pierce and Lewis counties.
  
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• Snow coming to Cascades, weather service says

  01-12-2015 20:27
  
  The National Weather Service has issued a snow advisory for the Cascade Mountains in King, Snohomish, Pierce and Lewis counties.
  
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• U.S. House votes to rename Nisqually Refuge after Native-American leader Billy Frank Jr.

  01-12-2015 19:48
  
  We honor and cherish today those we put in jail years ago. The U.S. House of Representatives voted late Monday to rename the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge after Billy Frank Jr., the champion of Native-American treaty rights  arrested more than 50 times in the 1950’s and 1960’s for illegally fishing on the river. Billy Frank Jr.  near Frank’s Landing on the Nisqually River. Frank, a Nisqually tribal elder who was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his
  
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• It's December, Which Means It's Officially "Listening to Kiki & Herb's Christmas Album on Repeat" Time

  01-12-2015 19:39 via thestranger.com
  
  Kiki & Herb, the defunct drag-punk duo, made a Christmas album years and years ago that has long since been out of print. It's such a good album—so beautiful, so funny, so spiteful—I listen to it year-round. It has covers of Nirvana, Radiohead, and Belle & Sebastian on it, mixed up with Christmas songs. It has monologues about people committing suicide by jumping out of windows but (horrifyingly) not dying when they hit the pavement. When I'm on an airplane that gets just a
  
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• Sorry, Fox News, Pretty Sure Domestic Terrorism Was Already Political

  01-12-2015 19:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Fox News
  In the wake of Friday's awful shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado, Fox News and the clown car of GOP presidential hopefuls are trotting out that tired accusation we hear every time there's a mass shooting: The left-wing establishment/Planned Parenthood/liberal media is politicizing a tragedy. The implication, of course, is that tragedies happen in a vacuum, and we're all just pretending, for evil ends, that they have political context. This is a bad argument generally, a
  
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• Search continues for climber missing near Leavenworth

  01-12-2015 19:08
  
  A search was to resume Tuesday for a Portland man who planned to climb Colchuck Peak near Leavenworth but failed to return on time.
  
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• Bremerton boy who set cat on fire sentenced to year in detention

  01-12-2015 18:56
  
  Bremerton teenager who set a cat on fire has been sentenced to a year to 14 months in the state juvenile rehabilitation system.
  
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• Rising cigarette taxes tied to lower infant deaths: Study

  01-12-2015 18:39
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — When it costs more to smoke, fewer babies die, according to a new study that links rising cigarette taxes with declines in infant mortality, especially among blacks. With nearly 4 million annual births nationwide, the results suggest that a $1 increase in cigarette taxes would be expected to lead to 750 fewer […]
  
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• New Sea-Tac Airport director coming from Houston

  01-12-2015 18:36
  
  Houston Airport System chief operating officer Lance Lyttle is expected to be announced today as the new managing director of Sea-Tac International Airport, succeeding Mark Reis, who is retiring after 27 years with the Port of Seattle.
  
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• Why Is the City of Seattle's Legislative Wish List for Olympia So Maddeningly Vague?

  01-12-2015 18:35 via thestranger.com
  
  We first ran this map five years ago. This year, Washington remains the state with the most regressive tax system in the country with little sign of change on the horizon. The Stranger
  The Seattle City Council is in a weird limbo right now. They've finished their biggest piece of legislation of the year—the 2016 budget—and a third of them are now lame ducks until they get replaced in January.But they still have to get some stuff done, and one of those things is setting the city's wis
  
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• Q&A: What is the U.N. conference on climate change, and how is Seattle represented?

  01-12-2015 17:54
  
  World leaders are meeting about climate change in Paris. Our region is well represented at the conference.
  
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• The Morning News: Seattleite Goes to Paris to “Call Them Out” on Climate Injustice, KPLU Letter of Protest

  01-12-2015 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  Last month, Sarra Tekola participated in a water-borne protest in front of Bill and Melinda Gateses' Lake Washington estate. On December 8 she'll be in Paris. SB
  A 23-Year-Old Seattleite Is Going to Paris to Speak on a Panel with China's Lead Climate Negotiator and the President of Iceland: Sarra Tekola, known for her work in Seattle as a UW Divest, Black Lives Matter, and Gates Divest organizer, will be representing climate justice organization Got Green (as part of the Grassroots Global Justic
  
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• Photos of the Day: Dec. 1, 2015

  01-12-2015 17:19
  
  Explore the news of the day with these images from around the world.
  
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• Mexico experts: passageway may lead to Aztec ruler’s tomb

  01-12-2015 16:42
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican archaeologist said his team has found a tunnel-like passageway that apparently leads to two sealed chambers, the latest chapter in the search for the as-yet undiscovered tomb of an Aztec ruler. The Aztecs are believed to have cremated the remains of their leaders during their 1325-1521 rule, but the […]
  
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• McMenamins eyes Tacoma’s Old City Hall for future hotel

  01-12-2015 16:06
  
  Tacoma officials say they are moving forward with plans to sell or lease the Old City Hall building to McMenamins for the development of a boutique hotel.
  
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• State to out-of-bounds hikers at Palouse Falls: Keep out — and we mean it

  01-12-2015 15:47
  
  Visitors to Washington’s state waterfall are being asked to keep a safe distance.
  
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• Ramen Yoshi brings umami goodness to Bellevue

  01-12-2015 15:30
  
  Steaming broth and just-right noodles are the best bet at this spot that’s a “work in progress.”
  
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• France, Germany, Canada call on world to put price on carbon

  01-12-2015 15:28
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — One of the smartest ways to fight global warming is putting a price on carbon dioxide pollution, according to key world leaders at the international climate summit, including U.S. President Barack Obama. Either a tax on carbon dioxide emissions or putting a price on carbon and trading carbon pollution like […]
  
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• Grand Canyon looks for new ways to manage backcountry

  01-12-2015 15:18
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Millions of people visit the Grand Canyon each year, taking in the sweeping views from developed areas along the rim, grabbing a bite to eat and hopping on a shuttle bus to other outlooks. Far fewer people venture into the 1.1 million acres that make up the backcountry. Park officials are […]
  
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• A proposed luxury resort where eagles soar stirs anger

  01-12-2015 15:14
  
  WARSAW, Va. (AP) — Twice a year, bald eagles from as far north as Canada and as far south as Florida flock by the thousands to a stretch of the Rappahannock River in Virginia for an all-you-can-eat buffet. They perch in trees atop pale cliffs rising along this river to the Chesapeake Bay and dive […]
  
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• Publication of Kshama Sawant's Book Pushed Back to Next Summer

  01-12-2015 15:11 via thestranger.com
  
  Kshama Sawant's book is due out next year, but it's unclear exactly when. Kelly O
  If you've been waiting around for your copy of Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant's memoir ever since Joel Connelly told you it was coming out this fall, you're going to have to keep waiting.The release of the book, which was initially set for this September, has been delayed repeatedly. It's new release date is unclear.A website for the book says it's due out April 26, but a representative from publisher Ve
  
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• New building to boost research firepower at Allen’s brain institute

  01-12-2015 14:30
  
  After years crammed into four buildings, the Allen Institute for Brain Science is opening a new Seattle headquarters intended to help expand and accelerate its work.
  
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• Internet speed too slow in 1 of 10 Washington school districts, report finds

  01-12-2015 14:02
  
  In Washington, 88 percent of public-school districts have high-speed broadband in their classrooms.
  
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• We want your stories about Seattle artifacts

  01-12-2015 07:20
  Whether you’re nostalgic for the past or embracing your neighborhood’s change, we’d like to know.
  
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• Male vs. female brain? Not a valid distinction, study says

  01-12-2015 06:37
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Are the brains of men and women truly different? Not if you look at the overall structure, a new study says. While specific parts show sex differences, an individual brain only rarely has all “male” traits or all “female” traits, researchers report. It’s more likely to be a mixed bag: some […]
  
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• Bill Gates lays out vision for clean energy

  01-12-2015 05:24
  
  In the Monday kickoff to the historic climate conference in Paris, Bill Gates unveiled a new role as a global recruiter for billionaires willing to push clean-energy ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace.
  
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• Readers’ generosity shines through wartime fears of 1941 and decades later with Fund For The Needy

  01-12-2015 04:40
  
  A 1941 newspaper serves as a testimony to Times readers’ long history of generosity — even in periods of upheaval and uncertainty, writes Nicole Brodeur.
  
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• Ted Cruz: ‘Overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats’

  01-12-2015 04:32
  
  Ultraconservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has eclipsed real estate mogul Donald Trump, for the moment at least, as the wild man of the Republican presidential race. Cruz has reacted to the Friday shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs with a series of increasingly extreme statements. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has surpassed Donald Trump in untruths and extreme rhetoric since Friday’s shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) He first d
  
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• “Overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats”: Sen. Ted Cruz gets extreme

  01-12-2015 04:32
  
  Ultraconservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has eclipsed real estate mogul Donald Trump, for the moment at least, as the wild man of the Republican presidential race. Cruz has reacted to the Friday shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs with a series of increasingly extreme statements. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has surpassed Donald Trump in untruths and extreme rhetoric since Friday’s shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) He first d
  
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